Stick an iPad in B&O’s Beoplay A3, take a step or two back and look at it square on. It looks like a mini B&O TV. Put it down on a kitchen worktop or office shelf and you have a video player or jukebox capable of producing rich, full-bodied audio which does iPad far more justice than its own tiny speaker.
B&O Beoplay A3
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Cute.. but..

Re: Cute.. but..

Well, they are no worse than us - I quite fancied getting a B&W Zeppelin when I first saw one, but I quickly saw the price - ouch, £500 for an ipod dock and some speakers is obscene, no matter how pretty it is and the bespoke British craftsmanship.

Re: Cute.. but..

It evens up, in fact, Danes win. A friend of mine with a nice flat in Copenhagen pays about £70 per month, which covers her mortgage to her housing association- about 1/10th of what I pay, for a much nicer, quieter and less polluted environment. London suddenly seems like a really bad deal when I find myself working more hours for a great deal less, while it wrecks my health.

Re: Four hundred and fifty quid?

B&O have always been vastly over-priced tat and nearly always has some stupid flaw. I still remember their magic tuner from the late 1960s where the cursor was a pair of tiny ball bearings seemingly suspended in mid air. They were actually in perspex tubes, and dragged along by magnets behind the fascia - trouble was the tubes weren't sealed and the balls rusted and stuck. Then there was the record player with the oh so finely balanced high mass pickup arm with a magnetic pickup - but the counter balance weight would work loose and fall off the end when you lifted the arm. The surprise resulted in lots of people dropping it whereupon the full weight smashed into the turntable (or worse, the record)